I tried using MandrakeUpdate and selecting all packages today.
A number of problems (e.g. if there are 2 versios of the same package) but
I thought I'd see what happened, the GUI makes it easy so people will do it.
Well, there were conflicts but after downloading 180 packages, I went to
the cache dir, moved the problem-causing packages away, and did
rpm -Uvh *.rpm
Mostly went OK, I noted:
59:fam ########################################### [ 37%]
/var/tmp/rpm-tmp.41500: line 1: 15555 Segmentation fault /sbin/chkconfig --add
xinetd
error: execution of %preun scriptlet from fam-2.6.7-2mdk failed, exit status 139
83:lilo ########################################### [ 52%]
Warning: 'menu-scheme' not supported by boot loader
89:man warning: /etc/man.config created as /etc/man.config.rpmnew
100:msec warning: /etc/profile.d/msec.sh created as
/etc/profile.d/msec.sh.rpmnew
########################################### [ 62%]
- Cleaning msec appended line in /etc/syslog.conf : done.
- Cleaning msec appended line in /etc/hosts.deny : done.
- Cleaning msec appended line in /etc/hosts.allow : done.
- Cleaning msec appended line in /etc/securetty : done.
- Cleaning msec appended line in /etc/security/msec/security.conf : done.
- Cleaning msec appended line in /etc/ld.so.preload : Can't open
/etc/ld.so.preload: No such file or directory.
done.
- Cleaning msec appended line in /etc/host.conf : done.
- Cleaning msec appended line in /etc/sysctl.conf : done.
- Cleaning msec appended line in /etc/logrotate.conf : done.
- Cleaning msec appended line in /etc/rc.d/rc.local : done.
- Cleaning msec appended line in /etc/rc.d/rc.firewall : done.
- Cleaning msec appended line in /etc/crontab : done.
- Cleaning msec appended line in /etc/profile : done.
- Cleaning msec appended line in /etc/zprofile : done.
- Cleaning msec appended line in /etc/X11/xinit.d/msec : done.
- Cleaning msec appended line in /etc/sysconfig/msec : done.
- Cleaning msec appended line in /etc/profile.d/msec.sh : done.
- Cleaning msec appended line in /etc/profile.d/msec.csh : done.
119:umb-scheme ########################################### [ 74%]
install-info: warning: no info dir entry in `/usr/share/info/umb-scheme.info.bz2'
150:linuxconf ########################################### [ 94%]
/usr/lib/linuxconf/install/rpm-postinst.sh: line 3: 16885 Segmentation fault
$*
For linuxconf, line 3 of that script is
. /usr/lib/linuxconf/install/rpm-identdist.sh
which in turn looks like:
#!/bin/sh
# First we identify which distribution we are working on
OLDINSTALL=/usr/lib/linuxconf/help.eng/notices/01-oldinstall
GRABNOTICE=/usr/lib/linuxconf/help.eng/notices/02-grabinfo
INITTABREPLACE=/usr/lib/linuxconf/uninstall/inittab.replace
GRABINFO=/usr/lib/linuxconf/redhat/scripts/grabinfo.sh
SETMODULES=/usr/lib/linuxconf/redhat/scripts/setmodules.sh
CHECKDIST=redhat
SPCCONF=conf.linuxconf-redhat-4.x
# Anything newer than 5.0 is linuxconf aware. No need
# to replace the rc script and inittab
RCINIT=rc.sysinit
PATHRCINIT=/etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit
SYSVLINUXCONF=/usr/lib/linuxconf/redhat/scripts
RUNLEVELSPATH="/etc/rc.d/rc0.d /etc/rc.d/rc1.d /etc/rc.d/rc2.d /etc/rc.d/rc3.d
/etc/rc.d/rc4.d /etc/rc.d/rc5.d /etc/rc.d/rc6.d"
PATHINITD=/etc/rc.d/init.d
CHKCONFIG=/sbin/chkconfig
$ uname -a
Linux blacksock.w3.org 2.4.8-26mdk #1 Sun Sep 23 17:06:39 CEST 2001 i686 unknown
Liam
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Liam Quin - XML Core staff contact, W3C, http://www.w3.org/People/Quin/
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Author, Open Source XML Database Toolkit, Wiley August 2000
Co-author: The XML Specification Guide, Wiley 1999; Mastering XML, Sybex 2001
